The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, practysyd [and] compyled by the moost experte mayster Iherome of Bruynswyke, borne in Straesborowe in Almayne ... Item there after he hath authorysed and done it to vnderstande thrugh the trewe sentences of the olde doctours and maysters very experte in the scyence of surgery, as Galienus, Ipocras, Auicenna, Gwydo, Haly abbas, Lancfrancus of mylen, Iamericus, Rogerius, Albucasis, Place[n]tinus, Brunus, Gwilhelmus de saliceto, [and] by many other maysters whose names be wryten in this same boke. ... Item yf ye fynde ony names of herbes or of other thynges wherof ye haue no knowlege, yt shall ye knowe playnly by the potecarys. Item here shall you fynde also for to make salues, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes. Item who so desyreth of this science ye playne knowlege let hym oftentymes rede this boke, and than he shall gette perfyte vnderstandynge of the noble surgery

¶ Of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••is shot with poysoned 〈…〉〈…〉 he dis and other thyngis ca. xvii. (Book 17)

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WHan any pacyent cōmeth to you / this is my coūcell that ye demaūde of hym / howe and in what maner this chaūce dyde fortune hym / in what maner and forme that this is shote or other wyse cōme to hym / as of y^e thynges y^t therin be remay¦ned / lyke glasse / yron / thor••e / arow hede / or other dyuers thynges / sōme be ryght / somme croked / sōme rounde / sōme hoked / somme square / sōme triangled / sōme holo¦wed where tymber hathe ben in / somme venymed / and sōme nat venymed.

Som stycke fast in the flesshe / & som in the bone / & som so depe in the body that it go the almost through bothe the sydes. And whā ye be well assured of these / than it is nede y^t ye haue som instrument in your besynes be longynge to this worke. Of the whiche y^e fyrst be tonges or nypers / half mone wyse and inwardly tothed.

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¶ The other be ryhgt terebellys sharp before / lyke as ye se fygured and counterfayted here benythe / whan the hede of the arow is bro∣ken of / thanne ye maye perce with your instrument in the tymber sof∣tely and so drawe it out.

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¶ The other be nypers or pynsons / namyd Albucasys / and is formed lyke the byll or nebbe of a storke w^tin dentyd tethe whiche is fygured as it is shewyde by this instru∣mēt that stondyth here benethe betwene y^e other. ii.

¶ The other be tonges or nypers that be brode / indentyd and holowe as che nebbe / for to take out a gone stone / lyke as here stondyth benethe on the other syde.

¶ The other be terebellys y^t be viced going in a pipe / lyke as it stōdith fygured here be nethe on y^e one syde / and it is for to take an arow hede out whā the wode is out of it.

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THe maner in suche cause to worke is this. Thou shalt marke y^e tokens of lyfe or dethe or ye shall begin̄e to worke yfye se any tokē of dethe / thā take nothige out of the body at that tyme for fere of dethe before he hath taken his sacrament. ¶ The fyrste tokē / as whan the shot is in the heed brayne / so suffer the pacyent greate payne wherby the s••ome auoyde out of the mouth and at the woūde. ¶ That other token / as the shot is in the herte / so commyth ther out blacke blode. ¶ The thyrde token / as the shot is in the loungis / than there commeth scōmynge blode out. ¶ The. iiii. token / as the paciente is towchyd in the mawe / than gothe his meet vndisgest out. ¶ The. v. to¦ken / as the paciēt is towchyd in his guttis so he auoydyd his tordre out. ¶ The. vi. to¦ken. as the pacient is towchyd in his blad∣der / so he auoyde out his water / and that is a sygne of dethe / And in all other places there the pacient is hurt / there as the sygne of dethe is not pull out of the wounde that shot / as I shall lerne you. and than heele it as another wounde. And that shot shall be taken out in sondry maners. And there is iii. principall maners of takenout. ¶ The fyrste that muste be taken out with tongys and instrumētis. The. ii. that with might is smyten through cōmynge out on y^e other syde. The. iii. is / as the shot wyll not cōme out / or maye not be drawe out w^tout more harme / and you maye not make the woūde greter with cuttynge or with tentys. So let the wounde certeyne dayes putrifye / so cōmyth the shot better out / Neuertheles it must be handeled softly / and there vpon ley the plaster drawyng to the sore / as I shall lerne you ¶ Yf it be so that an arow is poy¦soned / yf any body is shoten with a gonne / so do as I shall lerne you. y^e which drawne with plasters it wyl nat be well done with out the woūde be wyder made w^t cuttynge or with tentys. Also sayth Henricus that it maye be hastly drawne out. And so saith Auicenna / Albucasis / and Brunus. And ther after maye ye heele the wounde as ye wyll heele an other woūde / No more ther to do than the superfluence blode which is becōme to matter in the wounde / that it be clensyd. If ye be in feare of comynge more payne / so maye ye put in the wounde hote oyle often tymes. ¶ And as ye wyll be¦gyn̄e to worke / & ye haue knowledge whe¦ther it be an arowe / or a gonne pylleth / or another thyng. And yf the shot is in y^e heed w^t any other dyseas or to fallyng / so drawe the arowe out craftely with a pyle tongge lyke as here to fore the pyctor or fygure she¦weth. ¶ Is any body shot in the arme or legge / and the tymbre be from the yron / so cut that other syde agaynst the wounde / & drawe out that yron. ¶ If he be shot in his body and the tymbre be out of his body frō the yron / thanne muste you ••erche the yron with a tonge or a small instrument of yron where that it is / Than drawe it proprely out / Yf y^e woūde be to narrowe than may ye do as is aforesayd w^t tentys or cuttyng / Yf he maye suffre it wakyng or slepynge / & so drawe it out with your instrument / Yf it may not so be / ley there vpon a plaster / & gyue the pacyent a drynke as I shall lerne you in this chaptre / & also in Anthidotario The pacient shall lye opon y^e woūde as he may best suffre / bycause that y^e sayd drynk and plaster maye the better drawe out the yron / And as ye may {per}ceyue y^e yrō / drawe it out. Neuer shall you pull out y^e shaft frō the yron as one is shot with an arrow. Yf the shaft be shot deep in the body / in the plu•• kynge out of the arrow ye leese the yron of the arrow so that ye can nat fynde it. So it was be happenyd kyng Mathyse of hūgri was shotten with an arrow in ana••me the tymber cam out / and y^e y••on cowde not be

founde / The sayd kynge {pro}•…•…ysyd who that cowde get out that yron w^tout harme do∣ynge he wolde geue them great good. Thā cam to hym hans dockenborth and drest y^e woūde ther he was shotten in / and bande hym so that ther cam no matter out frō the woūde in many dayes / and leyd vpward aboue y^e woūde an defensyfe a colde plaster

¶ An defensyfe.

Made of bolo armeno / vynegre / camfere / a lytell roose oyle / and y^e whyte of an egge myxed & made as thycke as hony / because y^e arme shulde nat festre in fyre / by reason of the byndynge caused to gadder the matter about the yron in the woūde / & so the skyn̄e swellyd / wher by the yron cam / ther cut he the skyn̄e and toke out the yrō without any tonge. Than the kynge made hym knyght & an erle. Wherfor ye maysters remembre vpō it as ye can not fynde y^e yron / or y^t it be in a suche place that ye may not cut. yfit be in arme or legge / Is the tymber be goo out and y^e yron is byde within / put therin that instrument callyd a terebell in apype / and shrouyd vpward and pull that yron oute. Yf y^t maye not be done so / make the woūde wyde with tenttys / or with cuttynge / and so may ye pull it oute. But fyrst put in the wounde that instrumente callyd Balista / and ther after the terebelle / because it shall to softer goo in. And yf that yron wyll not cōme out lyghtely whan ye begyn̄e to pull thā proue it with the pyll tonge / and as ye haue the yron with the tonge / and it wyll not cōme folowynge / lyke as it happenyth in the borgōnysshe fylde afore Bloumoūde that a mā was shotten with an arowe / the yron byde in the body and the tymbre was out / To the whyche was many surgeō cal¦lyd for helpe to haue the yrō out / & it wolde not folowe / than cam ther to a surgeon of Straesborowe callyd Hans mayere / and he toke the pyltonge in his hande / and he {per} ceyuyd that the yron was hoked crosse wys and he tourned the yron with the tonge a¦bout so that the crossyd yron cam to y^e same place as it went in / incōtynent cam the yrō out / where by he was sore praysyd / & yet cowde no {per}son tell how he had it out.

¶ Yf it be also that it is nat possible so to do w^t that pullynge out. And yf it be al moste through goynge vnto the further syde / lyke yt happen the arowe to stytche in the legge and the tymbre is styl in it / than sin yte the arow through it / and pull it out on y^e other syde. And yf the tymbre be out than stryke y^e yrō w^t another arowe through. & so must ye do lyke wyse yf suche a case of an arowe happen in y^e body / and y^t is more peryllous And if an yron ware sounke deep in the bo∣dy of a man / that it were not possyble to ta∣ke it out with pyle tōgis nor with plasters nor with tentis / nor with cuttyngis wher as it went in / nor vnto the other syde with outfere / so longe let that yron styke vnto y^e tyme that the natour wyll dryue hym out to appere. Albucasis wryteth of many per¦sonis that arow heedis & gon pylleth that remayne in the body / and hathe worne it many a daye without harme. ¶ Ther hath bene sene in wertenborw a Taylour that had an nedyll in his backe berynge more than. xx. wynter or it was cut ther of /

¶ Of the drynes y^e whiche pull out / thor¦nes / splyntis / glas / bonis / and pyces of bo¦nys / hath Guido made one drynes / taken out of Auicenna / & is made in this maner / And all this {per}••ellis that is in y^e boke that ye vnderstande not / ye shall fynde it in the pottycarris to sell.

¶ A cicatyffe powder.

¶ Take whete me le and hony & the fulnes of a be heue of eche a pōde weght / & of byrd lyme take. viii. oūcis / and oyle olyue viii. oūcis / armoniacum. iiii. oūcis / and make therof a salue / and vse it lyke aforsayd is.

¶ Salue

Make this folowynge salue y^t to hym pul∣lyth al maner of yrō that bydeth in mānes body. Take apostomaticū Nicolay. iiii. oūcys. Magnete stone which cōmeth frō ••••iente. ii. oncys. and & yelow Iye front / & Polipodium / dyptami albi / of eche a half oūce. hare grese. ii. oūc. oyle of hempsede ane once / turpantyn a halfe oūce / of al this make a plaster and laye it on the wounde. Itē Rogerius sayd that he hath prouyd / y^e rote of a reed stampyd with hony and layd it to the wounde / that pulle out all that is bonys / stonys / glas / without any payne. Is the wounde to narrowe so make it wyd with cuttynge or withe tentys as I haue afore sayde. Yf that may not be done / so let the wounde in hym selfe type with y^e matu¦ratyse / than it cometh out of y^e woūde w^t y^e matter / and than clenseth the wounde / & yf it be need do as is afore sayde. ¶ Item here I wyll lerne y^u a meruelous mixture of many vertues / for it wyll sucke & draw out all rotten bonys / thornys / and other li¦ke thinges.

A salue

¶ Take the kyrnels of a date tre Surach rubei / sal armoniacum / longe hole roote or astrologia longa / & radicis cucumeris / asinini / terpentyn of eche. v. dragnes. and black peper and white peper & armoniaci amoni / phylobalsa•••• / tu••is masculi / colo¦fonie / / more tresap / of eche two dragnes and a half / & waxe. iiii. dragnes and y^e dreggis of the oyle of whyte lyllyes as moche as ye nede, and of all these make a salue / and ley it vpon the wounde / and it is very good to set on the wounde a bore without pryckynge.